Vienna Gala Evening Dress

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I needed a dress for a gala evening in Vienna in which I will take part next week, and I always liked this Burda pattern. Friends told me that I would need a long dress, though, so I took only the bodice of the pattern and added a long skirt: mainly two gathered rectangles, tapered to the bottom, and with a vent in the back.
I also underlined the whole dress with silk organza and added some boning in the bodice (always wanted to try boning!).

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Thank you! I must say I didn’t have any real problems with the pattern. Of course I made a muslin to fit, but mainly the only alterations I had to do was to shorten the bodice for my short figure and to adjust the shoulder seams. And I put the zipper to the center back instead of the side seam. But the parts came together without any problems (so at least in size 36 it’s not a problem).

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